The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-12-21

Melons grow and ripen best in newly
cleared forest land, says correspondent
of Anperion CnltiUdtor.
According to DIR. Phares Of Mississippi
the best beef is made from well-matured
animals, no matter how old.
Onions will not keep well, II piled up,
but in a cool place there will be no diff
Guilty with them II they be spread in
thin layers.
Colts halter broken and accustomed to
lead by the side of the mother, to
buggy or wagon, when driven, are
thoroughly broken to lead.
Raw meat, chopped fine and fed once
q day, will produce more eggs than any
other food given a hen. Give one pound
of rough, lean meat to fifteen hens.
'cThe hog is naturally the cleanest ami
NAL known" affirms a writer, who also
attributes swine cholera largely to the
use of corn as food for growing pigs.
The fall is an excellent time to sow
blue grass, broadcasting the seed evenly,
ten pounds to the acre, on ground that
is well prepared, manured and har-
rowed.
Ripe pumpkins are considered profit
able food for beef cattle, mileh cows and
hogs by many farmers. Tho seeds have
an injurious action and should be re-
moved.
A new pear, exhibited at the recent New
York State Fair, is the Barseckel,
cross between the Bartlett and Seckel.
1t resembles the former in shape, is of
medium size, greenish skin, and juicy;
flesh of fine grain.
A Nebraska farmer says his alfalfa
patch afforded excellent feed, last sum-
mer, while the drouth put stop to the
growth of grass and clover. The danger
to the plant is the liability of being
killed by the rigor of the first winter.
The shorthorn breeds of cattle have
become so generally distributed over
the country that but comparatively low
prices are now realized for the animals
at public sales. And yet it would be
wise for farmers to stock up with the
best.
When hogs have the run of field, it
is rarely the case that they will get so
feverish as to be foundered all over, but
they will often get quite stiff. The corn
should be mixed with bran or oats, and
only half of the bulk of the food should
be of the corn or carbonaceous sort.
Such fevered pork is not the thing to
eat. When hogs are fed all the corn
meal they will eat, one-third of it is
wasted.
Few farmers are aware, says the
American CultiUdtor that the apple-tree
borer also attacks and destroys trees of
mountain ash. Not only may this beauti-
full tree be swept away from lack of
care in guarding against this enemy, but
the borers bred in mountain ash may in
their turn carry destruction to neighbor-
ing orchards. Now is the time to look
for the work of the borer in either kind
of tree.
The French mode of killing poultry
causing instant death and perfect bleed
ing, is accomplished by opening the
beak of the fowl and with a sharp
pointed and narrow -bladed knife max
| ing an in cision at the back of the roof of
the mouth, which will divide the vertebr@
and cause immediate death, after which
the fowls are hung up by the legs until
bled. They are then picked when
warm. In thi way the skin presents a
natural appearance.
cit is not the nature of cow" says
the National Lire Stock Journal, discuss
ing the question of the amount of
exercise COW requires, '.to exercise
much. She prefers in the open field to
quietly crop the grass until her stomach
is full, and then lie down in the shade
and peacefully chew her cud with a
dreamy expression of the eye that de-
notes rest and enjoyment. She does
not run and cavort like the horse.
This is not her mission"
Farmers think more highly of the
young clover than they used to, and are
learning to treat it more decently, says
the Philadelphia Press. Grain and stub
BILE used to be turned into as soon as the
crop was secured, partly to save scatter
ing grain, but mainly to let stock get a
fresh bite at the young feed. Where a
clover plant is eaten down to the root
the growth of the latter is much i'm
paired. The plant more easily becomes
victim to the severity of winter.
There are now scores of farmers in this
country who would as soon turn stock
into grain field just before as just
after harvest. But when the clover be-
gins to blossom in fall light pasturing
sufficient to keep the heads down is not